Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Psalms 81:6

I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.

KJV

Ego dixi : Dii estis, et filii Excelsi omnes.

Vulgate

ἐγὼ εἶπα Θεοί ἐστε καὶ υἱοὶ Ὑψίστου πάντες·

LXX

I removed his shoulder from the burden: His hands were freed from the basket.

ASV

עֵ֤דוּת בִּֽ/יה֘וֹסֵ֤ף שָׂמ֗/וֹ בְּ֭/צֵאת/וֹ עַל אֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרָ֑יִם שְׂפַ֖ת לֹא יָדַ֣עְתִּי אֶשְׁמָֽע

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

11 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
י
y
noun · 177×
יָדְע֖וּ
yd'v
verb · 944×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
יה֘וֹסֵ֤ף
yhvsp
proper_noun · 1×
ךָ
k
noun · 55×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
מִצְרַ֔יִם
mtsrym
proper_noun · 634×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×

Historic Christian voices

7 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

1. On the subject of attention in hearkening it is superfluous to exhort you any more, so quickly have you shown by your actions the effects of my advice. For your manner of running together, your attentive postures, the thrusting one another in your eagerness to get the inner places, where my voice may more clearly be heard by you, your unwillingness to retire from the press u…
1. I said the other day, that John, to resolve the doubts of those who should question with themselves how the Lord, though He came after to the preaching, became before and more glorious than he, added, for He was before me. And this is indeed one reason. But not content with this, he adds again a second, which now he declares. What is it? And of his fullness, says he, have al…
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210214.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Summa Theologica · 2 passages
Can God be named by us? Are any names applied to God predicated of Him substantially? Are any names applied to God said of Him literally, or are all to be taken metaphorically? Are any names applied to God synonymous? Are some names applied to God and to creatures univocally or equivocally? Supposing they are applied analogically, are they applied first to God or to creatures? …
Is offering a sacrifice to God of the law of nature? Should sacrifice be offered to God alone? Is the offering of a sacrifice a special act of virtue? Are all bound to offer sacrifice? Article 1. Whether offering a sacrifice to God is of the law of nature? Objection 1. It would seem that offering a sacrifice to God is not of the natural law. Things that are of the natural law a…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 4:23 — These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.
  • Exod 1:11 — Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
  • Exod 1:14 — And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
  • Exod 1:14 — And they made their lives bitter with hard bondage, in morter, and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field: all their service, wherein they made them serve, was with rigour.
  • Exod 2:23 — And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage
  • Exod 6:6 — Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretc
  • Exod 6:6 — Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretc
  • Exod 6:7 — And I will take you to me for a people, and I will be to you a God: and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.
  • Isa 9:4 — For thou hast broken the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
  • Isa 10:27 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.
  • Lev 26:13 — I am the LORD your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
  • Matt 11:29 — Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
  • Ps 68:13 — Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.